🎨Roast Colour; 💡Barista IQ

Views and news about the brews. Unique and relevant information for coffee professionals and enthusiasts.

Roast Development and Colour

🎨 This week I’ve seen a bit of discussion across the various BH platforms about roasting, and feel like there’s a bit of confusion about development and roast colour. I wrote this post to help everyone understand these terms, and also made up a simple graphic for the visually inclined.

A while back I posted Let’s talk about roasting. This was in reference to three sliding scales of roasting: colour, development, and last-minute behaviour. I’d like to take this information on a different spin, comparing just development and colour.

Barista IQ Test

💡 Prufrock’s Jeremy Challender on “the dilemma of the independent cafe trying to work out where to position itself on the quality vs quantity continuum”.

Mythos vs Peak grinder battles…and the should you just serve it conundrum? Here’s how to approach these issues working from the viewpoint of our GM Matthew.

Coffee by Jason Scheltus

When I moved to Melbourne in 2010, it was primarily to learn from Jason Scheltus, one of the founders of Market Lane Coffee. This is a book for coffee lovers and beginners, but I’d also recommend it to professionals. Jason thinks about coffee from the consumer’s perspective with great clarity, and this book looks to be an interesting distillation of those thoughts.

This book explains the history and science of coffee, and offers explanations for the words you might see on coffee bags and hear coffee professionals use – terms like ‘pulped natural processing’ and ‘first crack’.

Facebook Group

As the facebook group grows, we’re seeing the post frequency increase. This means we’re rejecting more posts to keep the conversations focused, post quality high, and newsfeeds un-spammed.

We’re also getting a bit of pushback from people who don’t know why their post was rejected. To improve transparency we’ve come up with a solution that requires a fair bit more work for the moderators. Check out the changes here.